Literature
Lessons from Hip Hop
If you ever did the wop, wrote down lyrics to your favorite hip-hop song, or had Word Up! posters plastered on your wall, check it this excerpt from the book The Message: 100 Life Lessons from Hip-Hop's Greatest Songs
By Felicia Pride.
May 14, 2008,
11:35
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Literature
Real Portraits of the Hood
In Seconds of My Life, photographer Jamel Shabazz offers a testimony to the poor and working-class -- in New York City’s boroughs, Brazil’s favelas and Jamaica’s shantytowns.
By Sidik Fofana
May 6, 2008,
11:14
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Literature
The Skull Cage Key
HARLEM, USA, 2041 A.D.-- How much would you pay for a drug that takes you all the way out of your head -- and into the mind and memories of another? An excerpt of the new futuristic, science fiction novel from Michel Marriott
May 1, 2008,
12:41
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Literature
Being a Black Man
Being a Black Man, an anthology of writings on Black manhood, outlines the major issues that Black men face today and, more importantly, the strides made toward addressing them.
By Sidik Fofana
Mar 13, 2008,
12:25
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Literature
Coltrane as a Mortal
In Coltrane: The Story of a Sound, New York Times jazz critic Ben Ratliff humanizes a near saint, an act that might make even the most tangential Coltrane fan a bit defensive.
By Sidik Fofana
Feb 28, 2008,
16:32
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Literature
Our Own Dark Designs
In Dark Designs and Visual Culture, cultural critic Michele Wallace talks openly about how heated criticism early in her career traumatized her personal life and health.
By Natalie Maxwell
Jan 30, 2008,
13:45
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Literature
A Dominican Curse and Death
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, about a Dominican family that includes a nerd from New Jersey, is not a political story. It's a personal tale with political overtones.
By Sidik Fofana
Jan 30, 2008,
13:19
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Literature
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Literature
Last Word on the N Word
Classify Jabari Asim's book The N Word as stone cold non-fiction! In picking apart this inciteful word, he digs deep into history untouched by most cultural critics.
By Sidik Fofana
Dec 10, 2007,
10:15
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Literature
Walter Mosley: Write On!
Walter Mosley offers a stringent but accessible three-month plan for writers of all levels to finish their novels. By Sidik Fofana
Sep 25, 2007,
09:28
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Literature
Baraka's Newest Tales
Tales of the Out & The Gone is a vibrant and lively collection that shows Amiri Baraka's diversity, imagination and ability to evolve as a storyteller. By Sidik Fofana
Aug 15, 2007,
11:06
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Literature
An African Boy Soldier
Ishmael Beah’s memoir of his experience as boy soldier in war-torn Sierra Leone in the 1990s is startling and brings to the forefront the urgent issue of child abuse across the world. By Sidik Fofana
Aug 15, 2007,
10:47
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Literature
ADV: WE GOTTA HAVE IT:
In WE GOTTA HAVE IT: TWENTY YEARS OF SEEING BLACK AT THE MOVIES, 1986-2006, SeeingBlack.com's editor and film critic Esther Iverem provides an essential overview of the “New Wave” in Black cinema—a complex, often surprising perspective on art, society, and history. More than 400 film reviews are included, along with essays and interviews. Check here for information and tour dates.
Apr 9, 2007,
23:02
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Literature
To the Break of Dawn
In this excerpt from his new book, To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic, SeeingBlack.com contributor William Jelani Cobb deals with hip hop's storytelling tradition, the relationship of that tradition to the blues and autobiographies that artists have given through the music.
Apr 6, 2007,
07:45
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Literature
A Poem for James Brown
Inspired by Mark Anthony Neal's article, "The Last Soul Brother," Miriam-Ruth Garnett wrote Rumination on Shelley (In Memoriam, James Brown).
Feb 14, 2007,
21:06
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Literature
Oh Brother 2006: You'd Better Call Tyrone...
Deconstructing Tyrone: A New Look at Black Masculinity in the Hip-Hop Generation by Natalie Hopkinson and Natalie Y. Moore provides a point of entry to discuss our collective amen to Ms. Badu. Reviewed by A. H. Bugg
Nov 28, 2006,
21:17
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Literature
Books:Secret Daughter
Our exclusive excerpt from the new memoir by June Cross: Secret Daughter: A Mixed-Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her Away
Jul 11, 2006,
00:51
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Literature
Ernest Hardy's Bloodbeats
Ernest Hardy's new collection of essays sets the bar high for those for which cultural criticism—journalistic or otherwise—has been reduced to name dropping and ego-tripping. By Mark Anthony Neal
Jul 11, 2006,
00:25
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Literature
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